Jon Wassink: QB · Western Michigan · #16.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jon Wassink
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Third year in the Western Michigan quarterback room. The first one came in 2019: All-MAC. One game to point at: 368 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Monmouth — Week 1, 2019.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
52.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.6% conversion-per-dropback — 38.7% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 31 inside-the-5 carries (6.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Western Michigan | 241 | 407 | 59.2% | 3,097 | 7.6 | 20 | 8 | 135.4 | 53 |
| 2018 | Western Michigan | 150 | 244 | 61.5% | 2,009 | 8.2 | 16 | 6 | 147.4 | 76 |
| 2017 | Western Michigan | 124 | 193 | 64.2% | 1,391 | 7.2 | 14 | 4 | 144.6 | 57 |
| Career | 515 | 844 | 61.0% | 6,497 | 7.7 | 50 | 18 | 141.0 | 60 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Western Michigan | 69 | 319 | 4.6 | 3 | 60 |
| 2018 | Western Michigan | 46 | 162 | 3.5 | 6 | 18 |
| 2017 | Western Michigan | 41 | 126 | 3.1 | 3 | 27 |
| Career | 156 | 607 | 3.9 | 12 | 60 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-13vs Monmouth | 20/25 | 368 | 5 | 0 | 14.7 | 98.5 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 17-51@ No. 19 Michigan State | 23/37 | 252 | 1 | 2 | 6.8 | 55.1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 57-10vs Georgia State | 15/20 | 246 | 1 | 0 | 12.3 | 95.6 | |
| Wk 4 | L 33-52@ Syracuse | 23/46 | 356 | 2 | 1 | 7.7 | 59.3 | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-15vs Central Michigan | 18/29 | 244 | 1 | 1 | 8.4 | 76.9 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-31@ Toledo | 25/51 | 303 | 2 | 1 | 5.9 | 39.3 | |
| Wk 7 | W 38-16vs Miami (OH) | 15/25 | 137 | 2 | 1 | 5.5 | 42.9 | |
| Wk 8 | L 27-34@ Eastern Michigan | 15/24 | 192 | 1 | 1 | 8.0 | 80.7 | |
| Wk 9 | W 49-10vs Bowling Green | 15/23 | 175 | 1 | 0 | 7.6 | 78.8 | |
| Wk 11 | W 35-31vs Ball State | 13/24 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 37-34@ Ohio | 23/34 | 322 | 3 | 0 | 9.5 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | L 14-17@ Northern Illinois | 17/33 | 185 | 0 | 0 | 5.6 | — | |
 Bowl | L 20-23vs Western Kentucky | 19/36 | 193 | 1 | 1 | 5.4 | — | |
| Total | 241/407 | 3097 | 20 | 8 | 7.6 | — |
Week 1 · 2019
W 48-13
vs Monmouth
368 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 98.5
Dominant 35-point win at home against Monmouth.
With K. Mixon Jr. — 1 rec · 5 yds · D. Bussell — 5 rec · 116 yds
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
7.1271 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.2%45 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (45 of 205 QBs) and still 71 of 205 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 59.2% completion on 407 attempts · 46 deep completions averaging 32.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 45 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
3 seasons under Tim Lester — 20-18 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 216 | 1.7 | 9.0 | 0.3 |
| Road6g | 268 | 1.5 | 7.2 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 262 | 1.9 | 8.3 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 200 | 1.0 | 7.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tim Lester
Pass share
45.4%
413 pass / 497 run
Plays / game
70.0
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2019
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Three seasons at Western Michigan, 6,497 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 30 games over three seasons.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MAC
All-MAC mention (2019)
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: P.J. Fleck → Tim Lester. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
